Cary topographic map
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About this map
Name: Cary topographic map, elevation, terrain.
Location: Cary, Wake County, North Carolina, United States (35.64438 -78.94954 35.89683 -78.72945)
Average elevation: 111 m
Minimum elevation: 60 m
Maximum elevation: 160 m
Cary is seated on the boundary between the Durham Basin with its softer sedimentary rocks and the piedmont with its harder metamorphic rocks; both geologic provinces have igneous rock intrusions. The landscape is typically gentle to moderate sloping hills separated by narrow V-shaped valleys, but there are areas with steeper slopes and broader, U-shaped valleys in western Cary, roughly along NC 55 near the Research Triangle Park and north of Green Hope School Road. Cary's average elevation is 495 ft (151 m).